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Message: Dirty Energy, Dirty Jobs, Dirty Men

I can’t shake the thought that if the nation were in the midst of a large scale wind or solar energy generation construction phase that hit pieces like the one up at the New York Times and parroted by Jezebel wouldn’t be written.  A deep criticism of the men working the oil fields in North Dakota stems from a deep criticism of the reason they’re doing the work in the first place.  Of course, wind and solar construction projects wouldn’t be tied to a solitary geographic area.

Rough work brings in lots of men.  But the fruits of that rough labor benefit local workers and the rest of the country.  There was a story – also a NYT hit piece deriding the industry for diverting young people away from college – recently about a female cashier at a convenience store who was making $24 an hour. Strippers have also flocked to the region to earn some dough.  Whether or not the word “hooker” originated from the platoon of prostitutes who tailed the infantry of General Joseph Hooker, this tale is as old as time.  Drastic changes in sex ratio shock the system of sexual exchange.  Supply and demand fall out of whack.  Some bad things occur.  Some people make money.  Commodities and goods consumed by the rest of the country are produced.

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21 Responses to Message: Dirty Energy, Dirty Jobs, Dirty Men

  1. K(yle) 01/16/2013 at 2:24 pm

    Of course, wind and solar construction projects wouldn’t be tied to a solitary geographic area.

    Is this sarcasm? I mean you could have solar panels anywhere, but for industrial purposes there are certainly ideal areas, which is even more true with wind farms.

    “Green” energy is geography dependent as well.

  2. C.R. 01/16/2013 at 2:30 pm

    i basically meant that a group of workers would build wind turbines and then move on to another place to build turbines. there isn’t the intensive and long-lasting laboring on a specific parcel of land. this would be less likely to cause an area-specific boom.

  3. alexamenos 01/16/2013 at 2:34 pm

    18-34 year old unmarried men are horny for women of roughly the same age?!? Stop the freaking presses!!!

    “Some women have banked on the female shortage. Williston’s two strip clubs attract dancers from around the country. Prostitutes from out of state troll the bars.”

    Isn’t that interesting? Duke coeds lament the fact that they can’t get a guy to commit because sex ratios are skewed in the guys’ favor, while prostitutes and strippers are quick to exploit the advantage of an operative sex ratio that favors females. Does that mean strippers and whores are generally smarter than Duke coeds? I’m pretty sure it does….

  4. Camlost 01/16/2013 at 2:36 pm

    Kinda surprised that Marcotte didn’t obtain a quote from Van Jones on this issue, lol. She did have the nerve to bring Ray Nagin onto MSNBC to discuss disaster recovery after Sandy… I guess the captain of the Exxon Valdez was not available.

  5. everybodyhatesscott 01/16/2013 at 2:36 pm

    In the NY times article there wasn’t even anything actually bad. Some girl feels unsafe so it’s a terrible place. Is rape and assault actually increasing? Or are there just more cat calls than usual? Would these liberal women rather walk through ND or the south side of Chicago? I haven’t seen any stories like this
    about north dakota.

  6. a_peraspera 01/16/2013 at 2:49 pm

    Welp that does it, I guess we’ve got no choice but to shut down the whole Dakotas oil industry…?

    When libs/feminists write articles like this it’s usually targeted at the employers. They won’t get a behavioral change from the individual oil workers, but the companies are publically known and high profile = vulnerable to government meddling. Some lib feminist decided that there are too many men in North Dakota making too much money and having too much fun, unsupervised by women. So now we need to fix this.

    I suppose the NY Beta Times wants these oil companies to start hiring tons of women in these high-paying oil jobs. Who cares if they can’t meet production goals, the point of any business is to be a jobs program for women right? Right? Plus then we need to introduce on-site daycare and put all the men through mandatory “respect for women” training every quarter so the little darlings can feel comfortable and not harassed! Plus when harassment happens anyway the victim can hit the lawsuit jackpot!

  7. peterike 01/16/2013 at 2:55 pm

    Economically, there is not one single thing bad about what is happening in North Dakota. It is an enormous positive for America, brings in real dollars, but does nothing at all to fund the New York-DC SWPL axis-of-weasels. And, it gives good jobs to a lot of white men. So it must be hated on.

    With that in mind, the NY Times sends out a reporter whose job is to find something bad about the situation, and he manages to quote, what? Four women? So based on this massive sampling of women, the conclusion is clear that vast amounts of GENDER HATE is happening. And we are all to weep for “Barbara Coughlin, 31, who recently moved to Williston after her 11-year marriage ended,” because her mother and step-father “advised her to stop wearing the skirts and heels she cherishes.” Ohhh boo-hoo. And how much is Ms. Coughlin making as a waitress, where she wears “silver glitter around her eyes” like a 16 year old? We are not told.

    Well not to worry, since sooner or later Obama will get around to shutting down the North Dakota oil boom anyway. Then Ms. Coughlin will be on unemployment, and we can all be happy again.

  8. Camlost 01/16/2013 at 3:48 pm

    What we need is a little of Obama’s cap-and-trade policy implemented to kill oil profits and thereby stifle these rural white dudes with the nerve to want jobs that aren’t in media or public sector.

  9. brian 01/16/2013 at 3:50 pm

    Scarcity of women? Jesus, why do you think porn was invented? Just jerk off and get back to your life. I mean, they DO have the internet in ND, right?

  10. Gvyub 01/16/2013 at 4:06 pm

    brian – A lot of people around the alternative right don’t like porn because it’s not realistic, immoral or both at the same time.

  11. SOBL1 01/16/2013 at 4:22 pm

    A big portion of the green boondoggle was an attempt to get the energy production of the US out of the red states and into blue states.

  12. a_peraspera 01/16/2013 at 4:37 pm

    Yeah too bad the technology just isn’t there yet as far as solar/wind (if it ever gets there). Either people want their cars to run or they don’t. If they do, then somebody needs to get oil out of the ground and refine it.

    Just let them do it and quit crying about it. I don’t see these effete liberals volunteering to bust their asses 14 hours a day of physical labor on a cold oil field.

    I think the real objection is, they would rather have illegal Mexicans doing these jobs – the white guys are supposed to go $160,000 in debt to a college to get a useless degree. The college employees sneering at the oil jobs are angry because the boom threatens their importance.

  13. culdesachero 01/16/2013 at 4:43 pm

    How do those feminists over at Jezebel reconcile the belief that rape is about power not sex with the observable fact that these guys go apeshit for women when there are mone around. They make desperate attempts for sex because they are desperate for sex.

  14. Georgia Boy 01/16/2013 at 5:35 pm

    In the late 1990s there were pieces about the abundance of single men in Silicon Valley, with women lamenting socially inept things men did and said while drunk. Career-ambitious beta men are the ones who follow booms to places like North Dakota, Alaska, Silicon Valley, etc. Girls are gonna hate on betas on the make, what are you gonna do. They just want these guys to shut up and pay taxes.

  15. Steve Sailer 01/16/2013 at 11:39 pm

    As opposed to immigration from Mexico, which is sacred because no Mexican immigrant ever went to a strip club or made comments to a woman walking by.

  16. Steve Sailer 01/16/2013 at 11:40 pm

    “Prostitutes from out of state troll the bars.”

    I have a question about the word “troll,” which I’ve seen Tom Wolfe and now the NYT use when I think they should be using “trawl.” Prostitutes aren’t living under bridges devouring billy goats, are they?

  17. C.R. 01/16/2013 at 11:46 pm

    Steve,

    Lucky for Mexicans that white NYT reporters can’t speak Spanish. Not that if they even knew Spanish that they’d investigate the more salacious goings-on in areas with lots of Mexican workers.

  18. JT 01/17/2013 at 2:39 am

    Ah, the New York Times, a slicked-up Volkischer Beobachter for the white hating Left. It routinely runs these little knocks against whites in “Flyover Country” of the Midwest and South. (There’s a current nasty little racist rant in the Times about Southern white Miss America winners.) It’s a race thang more than a class/anti-industrial thing.

  19. Steve Sailer 01/17/2013 at 6:40 am

    “It’s a race thang more than a class/anti-industrial thing.”

    Maybe, but there’s a real consensus in the U.S. these days among everybody who matters that blue collar American men don’t deserve to make much money. Practically nobody who writes disagrees, so there’s no debate upon it. It’s just the default assumption.

  20. Whitey Whiteman III 01/17/2013 at 7:21 am
  21. Drama 01/19/2013 at 7:07 pm

    I remember reading something that one of the people to get richest from the California gold rush was a guy who initially bought every shovel, and spade he could get his hands on and sold them for multiples later on.

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